How often do you find yourself saying yes when you mean no? Staying silent when you need to speak? Or asking for something in a way that feels more hesitant than grounded?

Our boundaries—and our ability to make requests—shape our relationships, our work, and our capacity to care for ourselves and others. They offer us the ability to recognize and meet our physical, emotional, and energetic needs. Yet so many of us were taught to override these needs to find safety or connection. This 6-session workshop is an invitation to practice something different.

We'll work with somatic practices that help you develop centered boundaries—the ability to feel for how yes, no, and maybe show up in your body, and then express them with clarity and care. We'll explore how to return to a grounded, present state when stressors pull you off-center, and how to make requests that are clear, choiceful, and values-aligned. 

We approach this work as both personal and collective. Through somatic practice, we not only support our own healing—we develop skills to move our relationships, our communities, and the larger world toward what we care about.

What we'll practice together:

• Cultivating an embodied practice for identifying and honoring your boundaries 

• Making requests grounded in what you need and care about

• Feeling for your own needs and longings, while staying in connection with others

• Returning to a connected, present state under pressure

• Cultivating resilience as an ongoing practice

By the end of our six sessions, you'll have a foundation of somatic skills that support you in navigating life with more choice, presence, and capacity to care for yourself and others.

What to expect: 

In this series, we’ll learn through the body using individual, partner and group practices. The practices are simple, but require repetition to become accessible under pressure. Please plan to experiment with these practices in your day-to-day life between sessions.

This is an intro course designed for both people new to somatics and those who've been practicing for a while. Somatic practices are meant to be revisited again and again, inviting new depth and understanding with each repetition.